Bozo_Casanova

One more By the way- this why all the ex Republicans crack me up, because on some level they think all that shit was true, or at least that it was rolled out with good intentions. Like @Brisketexan and people like him believed that that jazz at the time, and a lot of them think that the people who passed it actually believed what they were saying. In that sense Donald Trump’s tariff nonsense is nothing new- like saying tariffs are taxes on foreign countries, Reaganomics was understood to be bullshit at the team.

Agreed.

Remind me who signed the repeal of Glass-Steagal? Remind me to signed the act that made the Bush tax cuts permanent? Remind me who explicitly and intentionally declined to break the link between employment and healthcare? Remind me who declined to pursue action against the bad actors who broke the economy in 2010? Shall I go on? If your point is that the entire Republican economic orthodoxy is wrong about how growth works and is a con job to enrich the top, I agree. If your point is that the last generation of Democrats did not contribute to the massively widening wealth gap while pretending they would, that’s utter nonsense.

See that’s the problem. Their only *relative* gain in almost 50 years, and it was tiny, and primarily driven by quitting their jobs and finding new ones in the chaotic aftermath of a calamity. Even as the basic building blocks of middle class equity continued to accelerate out of reach faster than their income? And who did that accelerated asset price expansion benefit? Oh right- the people at the top whose *wealth* expanded relative to middle class *income*. Tell me again how what I said isn’t “remotely true” and do it like I’m not a person who follows econometrics- I need more examples of Democrats missing the fucking point this fall.

What Democrats forgot in the mid-90s is that an economy experiencing a wealth and consumption expansion at the top without an income expansion in the middle is experienced as a shitty economy by most people, and offering them safety net programs as a solution adds insult to injury. There is not better single example of the disconnect between Democrats and the middle class than their genuine confusion about this fact. You can’t treat middle class people like poor people. They didn’t fail, the economy is rigged against them and their standard of living has collapsed over the last 15 years, after a slow decline during the previous 35. Can you really blame some of them for wanting to give Democrats a big fuck you? As much as they have lost - defined benefit pensions, market rate affordable healthcare and housing and cars, vacations, savings, good public schools, dignity, community, humanity, etc- can you blame them for being angry when the latest career politician grin-fucks them with drivel like “Im going to create an opportunity economy?” and then they go on TV and instagram and see a world full of healthier, more popular, better looking richer people everywhere they look. And their friends are using social media to curate their lives, and they start doing it too, but deep inside they know their lives are substandard. Because they are.

Oh, absolutely. First, even if I accepted your premise, that’s only 40%. Even if you take them off the table you’re still working with a healthy majority. Second, if they are the dumb ones, and you can’t convince them to vote for you, what does that make you? Winning elections is their first and only job. The business of campaigns is sales and marketing and nothing beyond that matters if they don’t succeed at that part of it.

I’m not bedwetting and I realize this board doesn’t love Nate Silver, but I don’t disagree with any of these. Harris has done well, but she was an underdog from the beginning and Trump understands his audience well. Meanwhile the Democrat consultant class doesn’t really understand and can’t relate to either his audience or the bulk of their own.

Heartwarming, honestly

Somebody yelled “more like FAGA!” at the one person I saw in a MAGA hat at the Fair last Monday. Not suggesting that you should do the same.

The Democrats are turning our Kaseys and Jadens into Kayceigh and Jadyn!

80386’s were pretty GD fast in their day

Abba slaps, y’all are pussies

Oh well see there’s your answer; recruiting evals are all horseshit

What happens to the penjses?@CHAD BRISCOE

Is that a recruiting thing?

He said no but thank you and hook ‘em ©️

Parents in Leander are sending boys named Braydyn to Whitestone Elementary and when he comes home he identifies as Lt. Col Brayleigh, she/her!!!

This game has Ted Cruz vibes

Is he at the game? That motherfucker better not be at the game.

Two things: 1) This is the second most talented Mavs roster ever (behind 87-88). Like that team, the best two players are head cases, but in much more benign and far less toxic. This team also doesn’t have to face the best Lakers team ever to get to the finals or the 87-88 Celtics if they make it. 2) MFFL

Did I miss this again? Dammit

Body Count fucking rules

Thank you

You should do that anyway